| | |  | Cars Audio & Video | Home » » Sony VAIO VGN-SZ660N/C 13.3-inch Laptop (Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T7500, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB Hard Drive, Vista Business) | | | | | | | Description: | | 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile Processor T7500 / 2GB 667MHz DDR2 / 160GB HD / 13.3" WXGA Display / Bluetooth / MS Vista Business / DL DVD Multi | | | Features: | |
• Sleekly designed, lightweight notebook with 13.3-inch screen (with Webcam), 4-pound black carbon fiber case
• 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 processor, ReadyDrive hybrid hard drive system, 2 GB RAM, dual-layer DVD drive
• 2 USB, 1 FireWire, 1 VGA, Quad-mode Wi-Fi, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth, multi-format memory card reader
• Hybrid Graphics System lets toggle between NVidia GeForce Go 8400M and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
• Pre-installed with Windows Vista Business; ready for Sprint Broadband WWAN service (subscription required)
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 9.3 inches | | Product Width:
| 12.5 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.3 inches | | Product Weight:
| 4.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 14.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 13.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 6.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 42 reviews |
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 OverheatingJun 20, 2010
After two years, the laptop keeps rebooting due to overheating. Restoring the Vista back to original setting seems to fix the problem. After one year, it happens again. I am trying to put an ice pad under the laptop to recover the data. Very disappointed that I think I need to retire it after transferring the data. Sony needs to do a better job since this a $2000+ machine. I don't think I'll buy Sony PC again.
After cleaning all the bloatware, and downgrade to XP, hard drive crashed! :(Apr 20, 2010
Yes, our hard drive just failed also. We've been fighting this vaio for over 2 years now.
First slow, and had to uninstall bloatware from sony.
then still too slow so we erased vista and put xp. then it was good.
now the seagate momentus psd 5400 160gb made in china died and we had to start all over again. :(
For such a fancy and expensive computer, why does sony put cheap components like this momentus inside? not nice to fool their customers.
I put in a WD 7200 Scorpio Black SATA and it flies now. XP boots wicked fast. Almost like its not a Sony Vaio! :)
The problems don't end here. The battery is completely dead. So i cannot unplug the vaio just to move from the kitchen to the bedroom. It will die. I have to shutdown completely. tried looking for new batteries and they are all still in the $160 range for this old model. Forget it.
Also cannot figure out how to permanently disable the bluetooth and the security fingerprint reader. I've never seen a laptop that you couldn't turn off the bluetooth separately from the wi-fi. bluetooth is a security risk. Sucking battery for no good reason. Oh wait, I got no battery to suck anyway...
Don't even get me started with my Bravia HDTV. No more Sony baloney for me. They could go the way of Circuit City and I wouldn't shed a tear.
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STOP!!! Stay Away!Dec 25, 2009
Do you enjoy techno-debauchery and extreme consumer humiliation?
Do you have a need to wait endless hours hoping Sony nerds will somehow be able to make your computer work consistently or properly when for all intensive purposes this may only happen once every thousand years?
Do you enjoy paying premium prices for a worthless pile of rubbish?
If your answer is yes to all the above, then by all means, go ahead and enjoy the Sony experience.
I guess I enjoy my sanity too much. I have regained my health by swearing off any future Sony purchases.
SONY YOU SUCK!!
Absolute crapSep 28, 2009
I bought my vaio SZ-650 about 17 months ago. At first I have to say I really did like it once I got all the crap software and spiderman 3 promo's off of it. About a month ago I got a blue screen of death stating that my nvidia driver had a fatal error. I restarted the machine to find a black screen with green vertical lines and windows would not boot up. I went into safe mode and did a diagnostic check and ran my antivirus, after about 2 hrs I was able to boot into windos regularly. I would work for about 3 or 4 hours and the screen would go black...sometimes it would come back and say the nvidia driver was able to recover, most of the time it would just stay black until I held the power button down. After that the green line issue would come back and it became extremely annoying since I use this computer for my job. I called sony and they brilliantly had me do a recovery which was like putting a band-aid on a chain saw wound, it worked for about 20 min. I took it into service and it was determined that the video card was failing and that the motherboard needs replacement...the cost is in the ballpark of $[...]. I realize that I have had the machine for a decent amount of time but I spent about $[...] on it thinking I could get several years out of it, not less than a yr and a half. basically this machine has cost me well over a hundred dollars a month to own which is just stupid, I am not replacing the motherboard either because I was able to buy an ASUS laptop that is twice as powerful with triple the battery life for roughly 200 dollars less than the cost of the motherboard. I am now disgusted by sony and will NEVER purchase another product from them whether it be audio, cpu, or tv's...their quality has really started to lack in the past decade, used to be one of the most solid brands of any electronics, now just an overpriced piece of crap.
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Lost two hard drives must have been a lemon?Sep 14, 2009
Bought Sony VGN-SZ670N/C in Dec, 07 from Fry's and thankfully purchased extended (5yr) warranty. VISTA was terrible right off and had to pay to get downgraded to XP.
It ran very hot from day one. First HD went out in March,08; Fry's replaced. It worked fine but noisy until today 9/13/09 the HD died again. In process of trying to get Frysto fix it again. Too bad spend $2200 on what suppose to be top of the line and it turns to junk.
Compare this to my two entry level MAC iBook G4s purchased in Dec 2004 and both are still working fine with no problems; still use them most everyday. Both run cool and quite and no OS problems!
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